We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.
— Fred G. Gosman
Having children with someone is the real bond.
— Francesca Annis
Parenting three children at the same time has helped me grow as a filmmaker. It taught me to be more empathetic and understand what people want from me.
— Farah Khan
The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.
— Ewan McGregor
Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it's much more complicated than that.
— Essie Davis
I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.
— Eric McCormack
As a rule, I try to steer clear of opinions pertaining to your parenting. I assume you're doing the best you can, and God bless.
— Emma McLaughlin
The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place in parenting, as anyone who has tried to potty-train a recalcitrant toddler with sticker rewards knows.
— Emily Oster
We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?
— Ellen Goodman
I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
— Eddie Vedder
In parenting, as in judging, the days are long, but the years are short.
— Don Willett
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
— Denis Waitley
My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.
— Dawn French
Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.
— Dave Morris
Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.
— Dale Archer
A parentologist is a person who writes a book about parenting that is very clear about answers to, 'How am I supposed to raise my child?' Some of these well-intentioned people may be a bit too sure-footed on the sometimes slippery slope of parenting.
— Clyde Edgerton
I believe that at least 70 percent of parenting goes to the mother. In our house, I'm the one who knows about all the school stuff, helps with the homework, organizes the play dates, and remembers the birthday parties.
— Cindy Crawford
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
— Franklin P. Jones
No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.
— Fiona Apple
There's nothing to be gained, and much to be lost, in trying to bend every child to match a one-size-fits-all notion of what it means to be a boy or girl of a specific age. Better to set a few parameters and then go with the flow. Call it 'jazz parenting.'
— Ezekiel Emanuel
Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.
— Evan Bayh
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
— Erma Bombeck
Both Sheena and I are working parents, and we know how hard it is to balance work and parenting.
— Eric Greitens
People always want to give you advice about parenting. People who you've never met before will tell you you're doing something wrong. And it's quite similar in writing. People forget that you're a human; they just want to give you their advice.
— Emma Healey
I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.
I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well.
— Elizabeth Berg
I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.'
— Drew Lachey
I was allowed to do whatever made me happy. I can't think of a better or more worthwhile approach to parenting.
— Derren Brown
I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.
— Debra Winger
Everyone's generation probably feels like they're parenting in a better way.
— David Sheff
My parents have always had this philosophy that overindulging your children is one of the worst things you could do as a parent. It's something that was hammered into my head growing up. And while my mom and dad are not professional authorities on parenting, I can confirm from experience that they had a point.
— Dan Levy
Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.
— Craig T. Nelson
Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.
— Clive Owen
It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.
A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
— Frank A. Clark
I think there's different parenting styles.
— Farrah Abraham
Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.
As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It's like an onslaught of information about how other people do it.
Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
— Erica Jong
Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
— Emma Thompson
Do remember to pick your battles when you start parenting your stepchildren.
— Emily V. Gordon
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
— Ellen Key
Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.
— Eliot Spitzer
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
— Doug Larson
Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.
— Dennis Miller
I do not wish to share any parenting responsibilities with Michael because he is doing so well without me.
— Debbie Rowe
Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.
— David Frost
We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.
— Connie Sellecca
Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.
